Oracle Java SE vs. SAP Extension Suite (discontinued)

Oracle Java SE

Oracle Java SE

256 Reviews and Ratings

SAP Extension Suite (discontinued)

SAP Extension Suite (discontinued)

26 Reviews and Ratings

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
Oracle Java SE	Score 8.7 out of 10	N/A	Oracle Java SE is a programming language and gives customers enterprise features that minimize the costs of deployment and maintenance of their Java-based IT environment.	N/A
SAP Extension Suite (discontinued)	Score 8.3 out of 10	N/A	The SAP Extension Suite (formerly part of the SAP Cloud Platform) is a legacy solution that enabled businesses to rapidly build and enhance applications, processes and experiences, with the goal of driving agility and flexibility, while extending the value of applications. The product has obsolesced, and modern offerings including SAP Build or the	N/A

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Oracle Java SE	SAP Extension Suite (discontinued)
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	Oracle Java SE	SAP Extension Suite (discontinued)
Considered Both Products	Oracle Java SE Verified User Anonymous Chose Oracle Java SE Java is highly more performant and with a very wide range of opensource libraries at hand, there is not much that you "cannot do" as long as you "do it right". Interpreted nature of Python doesn't let you do proper multicore/multithread operations, you could even say that … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Oracle Java SE Code readability is greater in [Oracle Java SE]. Code refactor can be achieved in [Oracle Java SE], design patterns are used across the libraries and in use of it as well. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Oracle Java SE Java is the backbone of Scala. Lots of the improvements of the newer version of Java have been based on the improvements Scala introduced (functional programming features, among others). In this way Java and Scala are very symbiotic. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Oracle Java SE We also use C++ and Python in our application. We are working to migrate to a web-based application, but continue to invest in our Java client. Incentivized Helpful? Holman Cárdenas, M.Eng, TOGAF®, ITIL® CIO (Chief Information Officer) Chose Oracle Java SE Because of its reliability, performance and other reasons, Java SE is the top choice. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Oracle Java SE Both platforms provide support for common programming languages such as PHP, Ruby, and Python. Java developers can also use languages such as Java, JavaScript, Clojure, Groovy, and Scala while .NET developers can code in C#, F#, VB.NET, C++, and .NET. The two platforms also … Incentivized Helpful? Trang Nguyen Senior Test Engineer Chose Oracle Java SE We choose Java as our system has multiple sub-applications that have different purposes and architecture including back-end applications, front-end UI, front-end Rest API, and Selenium Automation tests. They are deployed in Windows and Linux, communicate with each other using … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Oracle Java SE We had to stick with Java SE due to some of our other services being already written in Java. For the past couple months, we have been experimenting with Python and comparing its level of security and performance. From our experience, Python has fewer security capabilities, but … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Oracle Java SE I like the platform independency. Incentivized Helpful? Balázs Kiss Software Developer Chose Oracle Java SE I wanted to write Python, NodeJS, PHP... but it's hard to compare all the different fruits in the basket. Java is good for what it was made for, and much more nowadays. Java was and I suspect, will be a strong candidate for any backend project, and it's one of the most popular … Incentivized Helpful? BB Barry Burd Professor Chose Oracle Java SE As I wrote earlier, I don't have a preference for one vendor's Java SE over another. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Oracle Java SE Java vs Scala: Less "cool." More verbose. Incentivized Helpful? Richard Stanley Director of Digital Software Development Chose Oracle Java SE Java out of the box is lower cost traditionally. As time has evolved, c# is catching up. Incentivized Helpful? RN Ram Nair Director Chose Oracle Java SE Oracle's Java is a uniform platform. It is widely used and universally accepted and is the defacto language. The majority of the industries from Banking, retail, healthcare, hardware, software, military, defense, and commercial, to the fashion industry use this language for … Incentivized Helpful? Terra Lo Computer Scientist Chose Oracle Java SE We haven't really used any other products like Java. We have used python and C++ for other projects. Java is much simpler to use than C++, but probably not as simple as Python. Then again, Python is meant to be a scripting language, so when comparing to C++, Java is definitely … Incentivized Helpful? MK Michael Kolling Professor Chose Oracle Java SE Many other languages could be used for initial programming. However, simplicity of concepts, static type system and available tool support in combination made Java come out top for us. Especially Python has become very popular recently. I think this is a step backwards, due to … Incentivized Helpful? AJ Alex Jing Software Engineer Chose Oracle Java SE Azul provides comparable services to Oracle Java SE. Compared to Oracle Java SE, support from Azul is more responsive and reachable. The downside is that the customer base of Azul system is much smaller compared to Oracle, so online resources are a little hard to search. But it … Incentivized Helpful? Xialin Zhu Engineering Manager Chose Oracle Java SE We are also using Zing, and it shows better performance in general. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Oracle Java SE Basically, unless you use Electron with really flimsy documentation, Java is the better cross-platform tool to use. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Oracle Java SE There are several alternative vendors of Java. They are almost all based on OpenJDK, so they are generally very similar. Levels of support vary, but they are more than worthy of consideration. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Oracle Java SE I do not see the languages that I meant to add in the list. These are Python, R, C, C++, Perl, Jython and Javascript. I have experience in each of these and each has its pros and cons. I like R and Python for scientific analysis. C and C++ have good support for communicating … Incentivized Helpful? MC Mark Carpenter Engineer 3 Chose Oracle Java SE Asp.net and Java both live in a similar solution space, however, Java tends to be the better option due to the larger amount of available resources for it. Node is an interesting tool. It is in a similar space as Java, but more focused on front-end web application development. … Incentivized Helpful? Whitney Vosevwa assistant hr Chose Oracle Java SE I have not tried any alternative to this software. Incentivized Helpful? Jean Georges Perrin Senior Architect Chose Oracle Java SE Did not do a product comparison, but Oracle licensing may force some of my customers to get to other variations. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Oracle Java SE Oracle is free to use and has many open source frameworks, tools and IDE's around it. That was the primary reason to choose Java SE. Incentivized Helpful?	SAP Extension Suite (discontinued) Verified User Anonymous Chose SAP Extension Suite (discontinued) The major points in favor to SAP Extension Suite against using AWS to create you applications, are the easiness of integration with SAP solutions and the simplicity to configure the services and platform before the use, no need to know a lot of technical details before you are … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose SAP Extension Suite (discontinued) Better out of the box connectivity with S4 Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose SAP Extension Suite (discontinued) I have more than 1,5 years in IT. But SAP Extension is most user friendly tool for user I have ever seen Incentivized Helpful? JO Jake Oldenhuis Team Lead Application Development Chose SAP Extension Suite (discontinued) We have been able to work in a much more agile way with SAP Extension Suite, and there is a lot of excitement that developing with this platform is significantly faster. SAP Extension Suite is the perfect fit to build great-looking applications that work on any form factor, be … Incentivized Helpful? TT Timothy Tran Senior Developer Chose SAP Extension Suite (discontinued) Built-in DevOps, cloud-native abilities, and support for mobile development led to the selection of SAP Extension Suite to embrace a modern application development approach and spearhead digital transformation. We've found other low-code application development tools we … Incentivized Helpful? JM Jason Martin Senior Software Engineering Manager Chose SAP Extension Suite (discontinued) We put together a company-wide task force to digitally transform every aspect of the business since we were struggling to adapt to a fast-changing market and successive acquisitions added cost and delays to every IT-related improvement or innovation. Following an extensive … Incentivized Helpful? JS James Simpson Chief Technology Officer Chose SAP Extension Suite (discontinued) As we selected the best partner for developing complex and critical business applications, SAP Extension Suite (formerly part of SAP Cloud Platform) was a key element not only in technical terms, but also and mainly at a business support level. Only the flexibility and speed of … Incentivized Helpful? ME Michael Eagan Application Architect Chose SAP Extension Suite (discontinued) We investigated four possible solutions by doing an extensive literature review and made reference visits. SAP Extension Suite was the best choice for InnoCore because of its strength of integration and robust low-code development and deployment. It's a brand new technology … Incentivized Helpful? EC Evon Collett Senior Backend Engineer Chose SAP Extension Suite (discontinued) Other tools with similar functionalities are very expensive and most of them use a disorganized array of plugins. SAP Extension Suite offers a more economical option especially since we can replace multiple tools and that brought a lot of money back for the business. As we … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose SAP Extension Suite (discontinued) One of the main reasons we chose SAP Extension Suite compared to other vendors is the support we have received from their team. The support has been excellent. It was easy to develop an add-on to our existing platform used. It provided efficiency across our company and we will … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose SAP Extension Suite (discontinued) There is no direct competitor since the platform is specifically designed to support SAP's own solutions. Technically, you could use the product for any type of programming but it's unlikely non-SAP specialists would actually do that. Again, the tight integration with your own … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose SAP Extension Suite (discontinued) SAP Anlaytics Cloud is an excellent tool that enables data visualization in the cloud. Budget planning, predictive analysis are some of the features of SAP Analytics cloud. SAP Extention Suite brings with it a platform to enable such cloud based tools that could easily … Incentivized Helpful?

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User Ratings
	Oracle Java SE	SAP Extension Suite (discontinued)
Likelihood to Recommend	9.0 (0 ratings)	9.0 (0 ratings)
Usability	7.4 (0 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Support Rating	8.0 (0 ratings)	- (0 ratings)

User Testimonials
	Oracle Java SE	SAP Extension Suite (discontinued)
Likelihood to Recommend	Oracle Java SE is well suited to long-running applications (e.g. servers). Java Swing (UI toolkit) is now rather outdated, lacking support for modern UI features. JavaFX, the potential replacement for Swing, has now been separated out of Java core. Ideally, there would be a path to migrate a large application incrementally from Swing to JavaFX, but due to different threading models and other aspects, it is difficult. At this point, it is probably better to use an embedded web browser (e.g. JxBrowser) to provide a modern UI in HTML/Javascript and keep just the business logic in Java. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	The adoption of SAP Extension Suite is growing significantly and it has become a strategic platform for our company. SAP Extension Suite will most likely meet the requirements of most companies to get beyond small workgroup apps and tackle more strategic requirements. The most important thing that SAP Extension delivers is a single UI for development effort for web and mobile deployment. Incentivized AO Austin Orlos Principal Digital Product Engineer Read full review
Pros	Since Java runs on a virtual machine, it's generally considered to be agnostic of the hardware it's running on. It allows for deployment across a mix of hardware setups with the same binary. Lots of literature, third party libraries, support forums, and books have been devoted to Java in general, making it a great language to use to support the business. Backwards compatibility has been an important strength of Java for us. Legacy code that isn't ready to be retired yet can still run on our newer setups despite using older versions of OJSE. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	Reduces the length and cost of system development and integration Empowers developers to acquire a new skill to deliver applications and other services efficiently Enabled the innovation team to transform the way services are accessed and delivered Ensures scalability of apps used simultaneously by thousands of customers Incentivized JM Jason Martin Senior Software Engineering Manager Read full review
Cons	I would like to see more standardization on the convention level of good code practices in Java that could be promoted by Oracle I would like to see a little more investment into JavaFX as with Graal VM there is a big potential I would like to see more WebAssambly/WASM related features Verified User Anonymous Read full review	It was a bit of a hassle to configure at first but once setup it's easy and fast. At a certain time they removed key items used in pipelines to force upgrades. The new UI though works well feels less intuitive than the previous one. Incentivized EC Evon Collett Senior Backend Engineer Read full review
Usability	The language is fluent and has good support from a number of open source and commercial IDEs. Language features are added every 6 months, although long-term service releases are only available every 3 years. It would be nice if some of the older APIs were depreciated with more pressure to move to the new replacement APIs (e.g. File vs. Path), but transitions to new features are generally well implemented. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	No answers on this topic
Support Rating	Java is such a mature product at this point that there is little support from the vendor that is needed. Various sources on the internet, and especially StackOverflow, provide a wealth of knowledge and advice. Areas that may benefit from support is when dealing with complex multithreading issues and security libraries. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	No answers on this topic
Alternatives Considered	We choose Java as our system has multiple sub-applications that have different purposes and architecture including back-end applications, front-end UI, front-end Rest API, and Selenium Automation tests. They are deployed in Windows and Linux, communicate with each other using Rest API, RMI and Queue Message and need to support different deployment environment from Dev, Test, UAT to Production so using Java allows us to have a common standard from development, build and deployment for all applications. Incentivized Trang Nguyen Senior Test Engineer Read full review	We have been able to work in a much more agile way with SAP Extension Suite, and there is a lot of excitement that developing with this platform is significantly faster. SAP Extension Suite is the perfect fit to build great-looking applications that work on any form factor, be it [a] smartphone, laptop, or tablet, and within budget. Incentivized JO Jake Oldenhuis Team Lead Application Development Read full review
Return on Investment	We didn't need to spend more time and resources on developing apps for each OS. Our Java application worked perfectly on Linux, Mac, and Windows. Our customers aren't fully satisfied with the performance of our application, specifically load up times. We didn't need to purchase training courses for our software developers. Each of them were already well-versed in using Java SE. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	Faster development cycle due to native integration with SAP products Negative short-term ROI due to the lack of training material and significant differences with the previous version of the same tool (SAP Web IDE) Tighter integration with corporate programming guidelines since SAP Extension Suite offers great integration with DevOps pipeline solutions Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
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